CAPABILITIES

The following list of capabilities supported by the Materials Science and Technology Division will give you an idea of the breadth of our expertise. Over the past five decades, Los Alamos materials researchers have contributed to a host of programs relating to national defense, energy, space, environment, transportation, and biotechnology.

Synthesis
aerosols • alloys • armor systems • capacitors and other electronic devices • ceramic-to-metal seals • colloids • fuel cells • hazardous materials: actinides (Pu, Th, U, etc.), beryllium, metal hydrides, salts • hydraulic cements • laser materials • light emitting polymers • liquid mixtures • membranes • nano/micro scale materials • new materials • porous materials • sensors: acoustic, chemical, process control, radiation • sol-gels • superconductor wires and devices

Processing
chemical vapor infiltration • coatings: slurry, sol-gel, thermal spray • composite formation • deposition: ablation, chemical vapor, evaporation, physical vapor, plasma spray, sputtering • electroplating • energy beam processing: electron beams, ion beams, lasers, microwaves • foams • gels • hot isostatic pressing • material processing for fusion technologies • plasma processing • rolling • separations • single crystal growth • slip casting • solidification: arc melting, atomization, melt spinning • surface modifications

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Innovative Composite Fibers
Plasma Immersion Ion Processing (PIIP)

Fabrication
fiber spinning • injection molding • metal forming • precision assembling: microassembly, target fabrication • precision machining • rapid prototyping: tooling • welding and brazing

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Welding and Joining

Characterization
corrosion and oxidation • diffraction: neutron, texture, x-ray • low-temperature measurements (20 mK) • mechanical tests: constitutive relations, creep, dynamic tests, fatigue, fracture, high pressure, indentation, nano-indentation, polymer rheology, thermal cycling, tribology • microscopy: atomic force (AFM), auger, electron (scanning, transmission, scanning transmission, scanning tunneling), magnetic resonance force (MRFM), optical (phase contrast, polarized, reflection, transmission) • remote chemical analysis • physical property measurements: acoustic, cryogenic, dielectric, electronic, magnetic, nonlinear fluids, optical, photoemission, radiation effects, superconductivity, thermodynamic, transport • powder characterization: sizing, surface area • spectroscopy: infrared, muon, nuclear magnetic resonance, optical, resonant ultrasound • thermal analysis: differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), differential thermal analysis (DTA), dilatometry, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) • x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) • zeta potential

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popLA Software

Modeling
atomistic • catalytic • constitutive • electronic structure • microstructural • process: casting, forming, powder consolidation • radiation effects • thermoacoustic

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Materials and Process Simulations Team
Innovative Composite Fibers
Electron Microscopy Facility

Interdisciplinary Activities
MST Division supports several interdisciplinary activities and facilities:

Superconductivity Technology Center

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

Materials Science Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Laboratory

Fuel Cells at Los Alamos

Neutron Irradiation Induced Metastable Structures

Ion Beam Materials Laboratory

Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory

Single Crystal Growth Laboratory

X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory

Materials Corrosion and Environmental Effects Laboratory

focus on...Sigma Complex (LALP-94-171/pdf)

focus on...Target Fabrication Facility (LALP-96-130/pdf)

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